About to buy 2000 pt green tide, need help

This is what i have so far, and I'm pretty please for the most part. I have da boyz all around the big mek for protection. The warboss, warbikes, and trukk boyz for flanking and counter assaulting. and Kommandos to take care of the pesky gun lines to buy some time. Only thing in question is the last 160 or so points currently taken up by Killa Kanz, which I intend to march up with the boyz. I could also take warbuggies, or something else. I'm not sure, but suggestions are gladdly appreciated.

Hmm...

1. Never give a big mek a powerklaw. If he's directly attacked by anything, he's going to die long before he has the chance to use it. Besides, he isn't nearly powerful enough to make good use of it.

2. Why have you given the big mek armor/cybork? He has an invulnerable save from the KFF. Yes, that doesn't apply in close combat, but as I mentioned before, if something gets into close combat with him, there isn't a chance in hell of him surviving in any case. It's just a waste of points.

3. Never put the bosspole on the warboss. Put it on the unit you're attaching him to. There's no advantage to having it on the boss, and if he's killed, the unit he's attached to loses the bosspole.

4. Either add more trukks, or cut them out completely. Two trukks aren't that difficult for your opponent to deal with. You need at least three, and in this sized army, I'd use four or more.

5. I think you're going a bit overboard on the regular boyz. What the list really needs is something with some real staying power, or destructive close combat ability. Snikkrot is good, but what the list really needs is a team of nobz.

Instead of regular warbikes (which aren't good in close combat), I'd field a team of 6-8 warbike nobz, with the warboss on bike leading it (if you use him). Be sure to give them a painboy, cybork bodies, wauuughh banner, bosspole, and at least 2 powerklaws in the unit. Yes, this will run 400-500 points, but trust me, it'll do a lot more for you than a unit of warbikes. Regular nobz in a trukk or battlewagon can also work nice, but I'd field at least 8-10 of them, with the same setup as above.

6. Warbuggies with rokkits are nice, but kind of a ripoff in real $$$. I'd only use them if you could get a deal on them, or convert them out of spare parts.

7. With that many boyz on foot, yes, you really need a weirdboy, upgraded to a warp 'ead, or Old Zogwort. I'd consider cutting out the warboss, keep the big mek w/KFF, and use either a warp 'ead or Old Zogwort. Just be sure that the unit you attach him to has the full 30 boyz in it, as your opponent will likely make that unit his prime target. The warp 'eads are great for their psychic blasts, and exta free wauuughhhs they produce. Just don't use the deep strike power if you can avoid it. That never ends well.

8. Only three killa kans? You might want to consider using more than that. I wouldn't buy more than that...but then again I would never buy killa kans, they're a rip-off. Thanks to the plastic barrels that come with most scenery, I've converted my killa kans out of spare parts. If you don't want to do that, or can't, I'd buy loota/burna kits instead of buying metal killa kans. On that note...

9. I'd buy two kits of lootas/burnas and a box of boyz. Use the extra parts in the lootas/burnas kits on the boyz, and you'll have 8 Lootas, 8 Burnas and 2 big meks (put 1 mek in each unit, to bring them up to 9 each). The only catch is you'll need some kind of vehicle for the burnas in order for them to be effective. This will do a lot for your army, giving it a lot of long ranged power, template weapons, and power weapons in close combat (as long as you didn't fire with the burnas in the same turn).

10. The kommando team is perfect. Don't change a thing about it. Just don't buy 'official' kommandos, they're a rip-off. Just give regular boyz a camo paint job and you're set.

Good luck!

Last edited by mynameisgrax; May 15th, 2008 at 20:03.
Reason: Forgot one thing

I think it's pretty balanced, but as you said, may lack a good CC unit, i just chose not to take nobs, cause of how expensive they were, and i tried accually using them on foot, and it didnt get too much done, but on bikes they will do better probably.

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